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Sadly Burdened. As Madam Perkins certified another major dispute to the board, the Administration prayed for better luck. For two months General Motors and the C.I.O. Auto Workers had been negotiating a new contract. Differences narrowed down to union demands for a 10? wage boost and a closed shop; G.M. made a counter-offer of a wage rise, but to a closed shop answered flatly, No. Union leaders finally decided to strike. Last week Madam Perkins tossed this new hot potato over to the board. What the board could do with it was any man's guess. A good...
...week, as death hovered over the fuddy-duddy Transcript, even Boston's hard-boiled reporters were moved to respectful silence. Nostalgia as well as wryness colored the telling of the most famed Transcript legend-that of the butler who announced to his mistress: "There are four reporters here, madam, and a gentleman from the Transcript...
Through it all she has had the support of Franklin Roosevelt, which was more important to her than Congressional or public popularity. Mutual friends explain that Mr. Roosevelt is used to dominant women who talk a lot, that he understands Madam Perkins, that they think alike, that she is unquestionably a brilliant woman. To her belongs credit for much New-Deal legislation...
...dealing with labor strife, almost from the start, Madam Secretary gave her critics their best excuse for attacking her. To Welfare Worker Perkins, labor was the emaciated wife of a brutal husband, and Ma Perkins was the community nurse rushing to the rescue. She salved labor's hurts. She squashed her tricorn hat down on her head and shook her finger at big, bullying business. She tried to settle the General Motors sit-down strike in 1937 with Biblical injunctions. When she failed to get an agreement, she flew into womanly fury...
...Labor costs due to overtime (and readjustment of wage scales by Madam Perkins) increased estimated costs...